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When David Jones moved from South-
ern California to Victoria in 2007, he had spent
two decades in the not-for-profit sector, counsel-
ling prison inmates on rage control, developing
workshops on healing past hurts and helping
people in recovery. In his new hometown, he
built on that experience and opened a Centre for
Inspired Living and became its founding minis-
ter—and continued to run the successful enter-
prise for another eight years.
But 25 years of providing spiritual care and
emotional support to others was taking its
toll: Jones was burning out, and he knew it.
He'd spent much of his teenage years running
an organic café with his mother in California—
baking bread in a hearth oven, serving farm-
fresh veggies and wholesome food for their
regulars—and he started to think that some-
thing similar could be the new career direction
that he needed.
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